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On the night when Mary enters Sam's nursery to find the yellow-eyed demon, Azazel lets her live and gives her back the memories of the deal she made – and a warning: “Your baby is mine. And I will come for him one day.” Guilty, desperate, and driven by the need to save Sam from a dark fate, and protect John and Dean, Mary decides to go on one last hunt to kill the demon that threatens her son. She runs away with baby Sam, leaving John and Dean behind.

John becomes obsessed with finding Mary and Sam, and Dean grows up wild and lonely, with the infrequent company of a guardian angel who protects him, while Mary goes to her Campbell relatives for help and starts a hunt that will be much harder and longer than she expected. Sam grows up as a hunter, while Dean enlists in the army and serves in Afghanistan. And then one day in 2005, Dean comes back home to find his father missing, while on the other side of the country, Mary stops calling Sam...

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Written for a prompt in X-Men First Kink:

"Some years down the line while on a mission with the Brotherhood, Erik is about to kill one of the scientists working at the government lab researching mutants when he notices the numbers on the man's arm.

Another survivor of the camps.

Enraged, Erik asks him what the hell he thinks he's doing, considering. And the man's answer boils down to 'There's this psychopath running around who's decided, again, that I and my family are a lesser race. Screw that, I'm fighting back this time; I'd stab that Magneto bastard right in the face if I could!'

...perspective's a BITCH, ain't it?"

In which there are Confrontations and Perspective and Consequences and maybe some Hope.

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When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.

The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.

This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.

He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.

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When San Francisco is destroyed, Hermann is sent to Lima and Karla is sent to Shanghai.

The two Gottlieb middle children spend the next ten years emailing their lives to one another – the daily annoyances, the end of the world, and Hermann’s refusal to admit he’s in love with his lab partner.

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'Newton?' Hermann called out, only to hear an answering 'Shhh!' issue from behind a moving curtain. He appeared to have cordoned off an area in the back corner of the lab with heavy screens, labeled 'Light-Sensitive Specimens – DO NOT TOUCH.' Newton poked his head around the corner with a slightly manic grin.

'Lock the door,' he advised before motioning Hermann enthusiastically over to a break in a thick curtain. Hermann frowned and paced across the room, wondering what could possibly be so important and so secretive that Newton would have to obfuscate its very existence.